기형도가 희망을 말하는 방법

Abstract

Gihyeongdo, one of the most despairing poets, persistently pursued hope. To him, the hope was not the antonym of despair. The reason that he utterly despaired was because he never forgot hope, and he awoke the existence of hope through the most serious despair. This paper gives attention to ‘window’ ‘office’ and ‘street’ as the most important scenes and poetic motifs in Gihyeongdo's works. In his poems, ‘street’ and ‘office’ are very special spaces which he gives his own symbolic meaning by highlighting the contrasting aspects of them. The desire on the street and the order in the office become the most powerful images when contrasted with each other. The office and the street, and the inside and the outside are penetrated through the window, and it is the most important poetic motif in terms of evoking his unique poetic desire and imagination. This paper observes Gihyeongdo's poetic desire and practice concentrating on ‘window’ ‘office’ and ‘street’, which are the core poetic spaces in his poems. As a result, this paper figures out Gihyeongdo's distinctive aesthetic quality of ‘hope’ that he earnestly quested in his literature. At the same time this paper claims that the scars of despair and failure in his poems are not the denial of the existence of hope but, paradoxically enough, his poetic motive to consistently seek hope.